Associate Director, Interaction Design
Kettle is a team of passionate, fearless creatives focused on delivering great products, redefining best-practices, and providing new opportunities for our clients.
We are looking for an Associate Director, Interaction Design (IXD) to join one of our largest accounts. In this role, you'll set the product vision, design new features, and enhance existing ones while establishing scalable UX/UI patterns across platforms. As an associate design director, you'll be hands-on in the work as an experienced designer while guiding other designers in your pod as a project lead.
Candidates should have:
- Interaction or Product Design experience in agency or related environments designing iOS and Android native applications and websites.
- Experience delivering user-focused solutions in high-complexity categories (Financial Services, Telecomm, Consumer tech, etc.).
- A clear communication style, with the ability to present design work internally and to senior level clients.
- Experience managing or mentoring Junior to Senior level IxD designers.
- While not required, bonus if you have experience with:
- Design of AI-enabled features
- Working with Adobe Experience Manager
We'd like to know that you can:
- Design creative product experiences from initial concepting through detailed design and collaboration with development.
- Solve complex experience challenges while delivering beautiful, usable interfaces.
- Work independently on projects with the guidance of your Director, leading design workstreams within your pod.
- Partner with teammates of different disciplines including Product Management, Production, and Development.
- Build strong client relationships with a solid understanding of their business needs, goals, and how those intersect with the consumer's experience.
- Adapt to different working styles and processes, from quick turn optimization to blue sky visioning.
- Manage and mentor designers of all levels, helping them chart their career path and provide opportunities to grow.
- Embrace challenges, not be afraid to get your hands dirty, and solution with fellow teammates and clients.
The target range of base compensation for this role is $150k-180k. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.
A little about us
A digital-native creative agency with offices in New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. We're a team of makers, doers, and passionate problem-solvers with a simple mission: to make tomorrow better. We spend countless hours tinkering and asking questions until we unequivocally know the product is in its purest, most elegant form. Our strengths are creating user-centric products, keeping it simple, and telling great stories.
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